AMERICAN SYNAGOGUE ARCHITECTURE

PHOTOGRAPHS.....BOOKS......HISTORY & MORE

I love architecture and history and have
always been fascinated by synagogue architecture and local American Jewish
history. As a trained archivist and genealogist over the years I have been
able to combine my interests and my research & writing. In 2008 I published my
first eBook, American Synagogues: A Photographic Journey. The
original cd-rom edition contains over 3200 photographic images of 1400+ American
synagogues, both current and former ones and included pertinent historical data
on each congregation and building. The book was extremely well received and I
have always wanted to do an updated, expanded and revised edition. Other books
projects took precedence, but this year I hope to do more work on this new eBook.
My goal is to add at least 250 to 500 new synagogue buildings and the new volume
will be in pdf format and available for purchase as a download. At this point I
am not sure if I will have to, due to size, break the volume up into geographic
regions. The new version
will include synagogues in American territories such as US Virgin Islands and
Puerto Rico.

If you would like to
be notified when the new eBook is available, please contact me and I will add
your name to my mailing list. If you have photographs of your synagogue or are
interested in taking photographs of synagogues in your city or when you travel,
please let me know. All photographers will be credited for any images used. I am always pleased to include photographs from people across the USA. To see if I currently have images of your synagogue
in my collection...just ask -
Questions?jhp1963@yahoo.com

My professional
Facebook & Twitter
pages have many interesting photographs and postings relating to American Jewish
history, synagogue architecture, Jewish genealogy and Jewish history in general.
You can visit these and other pages by clicking the icons at the top right of
this page. I also welcome appropriate postings on my Facebook Page.

Click on the thumbnail photos at the tops
of the page for full-size images of the synagogues and also information on each
building. Soon I will be adding a "Synagogue Photo of the Week"
section.

My published books include the following:

Jewish Cemeteries of the Delmarva Peninsula -Family Line Publications

Pioneer American Synagogues: A State By State Guide - Heritage
Books

Jewish Genealogical Resources: Mid-Atlantic States - Apollo
Press

Historic Synagogue of Philadelphia & The Delaware Valley -
The History Press

Jewish West Virginia - Arcadia Publishing-Images
of America Series

The Synagogues of Central & Western Pennsylvania: A
Visual Journey - Fonthill Media

Some of my synagogue and local Jewish history photographs have recently appeared
in Moment Magazine, Southern Jewish History and the book and
accompanying exhibit Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina.

Upcoming projects and eBooks that I am working on include the
topics of Holocaust memorials & monuments; pioneering Jewish congregations in
the USA; Ohio's synagogues; & the prolific American synagogue architect Percival
Goodman.